Most basic loop you can have.
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Using_The_Loop
<?php
$postargs=array(
'showposts' => 4,
'cat' => 3
);
$category_box = new WP_Query($postargs);
if ($category_box->have_posts() ) : while ($category_box->have_posts()) :
$category_box->the_post();
?>
... your code to display your posts ...
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
If you need to because of using two loops, you can reset the query to stop conflicts. This rarely happens, but just in case, call this after the first loop.
wp_reset_query();
Hope this points you in the right direction.
Hmm does this really lead me in the right direction? I have no problem displaying the posts I want to and from the category I want to.
My page looks like this:
Single post
__________
Category X title
Thumbnails from category X
——
Category Y title
Thumbnails from category Y
I cant have the title on Category X & Y in the loop because then it gets repeated for every post doesnt it?
I need a simple if statement or something to only display the heading if there is posts in that category.
most loops have this:
if( have_posts() )
if you paste the full code of your template into a http://pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here, then someone might be able to make a suggestion on how to include this conditional statement.
http://pastebin.com/xgRkdbML
Here is the code. Its two near identical loops where only the category is different. You can see there is a div with the name on the category above each loop. I put it outside the loop because if I put it first in the loop, it would repeat the category title for each post.
My problem is that I dont want the category name there if there are no posts in that category.
Thanks for helping.
these lines occur twice:
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
and here is the spot where you could add the category name:
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
/*HERE CATEGORY TITLE CODE*/
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
make sure to close and open the php tags accordingly if you enter html code.
Thanks! I got it to work. It makes sense when I see it but I´m not familiar enough with wordpress and php to always figure it out by myself.
Looks like this now:
...if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { ?>
<div class="grid_24">Portfolio</div>
<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
Issue resolved! 🙂
